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Table 1 Specification of eight typical configurations for spectral comparison. (For pairwise comparison in 1–5, the experimental spectra with the highest scores were selected as references from the clusters. SMZ in row 4 indicates that the intensity is weighted by the square of m/z as in [20].)

From: Methods for peptide identification by spectral comparison

Setting ID

Intensity transform

Binning method

Reference spectra

ROC area

1

logarithm

profiling

individual spectra

0.993

2

no transform

profiling

individual spectra

0.992

3

square root w/SMZ

profiling

individual spectra

0.993

4

square root

direct binning

individual spectra

0.997

5

square root

profiling

individual spectra

0.998

6

square root

profiling

theoretical spectra

0.987

7

square root

profiling

closest neighbors

0.999

8

square root

profiling

average spectra

0.999